SLICED BREAD MAGAZINE SPRING 2019 A collection of student art and writing at the University of Chicago STAFF EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Monica Rae Brown, Parker Chusid EDITORS Victoria Constant, Belen Edwards, Mireille Farjo, Sophia Fisher, Peter Forberg, John Lutz, Jacob Weiss STAFF Rosie Albrecht, Wahid Al Mamun, Olivia Alcabes, Madeline Birmingham, Conor Bulkeley-Krane, Sasha Diaz, Andrew Farry, Tatiana Goderstad, Cheryl Hao, Sofiy Inck, Caitlyn Klum, Vivian Lei, Lina Linares, Emily Lynch, Charlie Marshall, Maya Osman-Krinsky, Nora Spadoni, Bradley Tian, Eli Timoner, Angel Toro, Olenka Wellisz, Elena Whitney, Michael Wiley, Elizabeth Winkler, Alexis Wolf, Imaan Yousuf SLICED BREAD MAGAZINE is a student publication at the Unversity of Chicago. It is published by Grace Printing. The opinions expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of Sliced Bread. All rights revert to the authors upon publication, and their work may not be used without their consent. Copyright of this magazine is protected under the rules and regulation of the Creative Commons Legal Code. Please send all inquiries and letters to our email: [email protected] Or, you can reach us through snail mail at the following address: Sliced Bread Magazine, 5706 S. University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60637. For submission guidelines and other information, please visit our website at www.slicedbreadmag.com. FROM THE EDITORS: “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin “I didn’t just freestyle it. At the end, it’s about bread.” — Kodak Black That you are holding this magazine in your hands is testament to the continued efficacy of love and, more marginally, to our continued desire to get this bread. Our Spring 2019 Issue is fresh from the oven and ready for consumption. Sliced Bread, like love, doesn’t just sit there—it has to be made, remade, made new. And then it has to be enjoyed. This has been a year of remakings and refashionings. While Sliced Bread hasn’t changed—at the end, it’s still about bread—we have been refining our organization and our content. We have renewed our commitment to maintaining a multimedia approach to art on campus by growing our podcast, Bread Beat. We have also expanded our workshopping process and made changes to our internal leadership structure to better facilitate our other commitments. As June approaches, it is time once again to say goodbye to our graduating seniors. Monica Rae Brown, Parker Chusid, John Lutz, Tatiana Goderstad, and Charlie Marshall will all be leaving us this spring. They have each contributed their own understanding of the magazine’s mission to its quarterly refashioning, and with their departure arrives the opportunity to remake Sliced Bread in the image of its new leadership: we are happy to announce that Belen Edwards will be our Editor-in-Chief for the 2019–2020 school year. Finally, thank you to our readers around campus for taking the time to enjoy the work of our artists! We cannot overstate the joy of seeing someone sitting in a café, library, or reading nook tucking into a copy of our magazine during a study break. Thank you. Panivorously yours, The Editors at Sliced Bread CONTENTS LIT To the boys growing up without names Felix Lecocq ...................... 6 I Love You & Your Pink Suede Bandana Jake Weiss ......................... 7 I went to therapy Elizabeth Winkler ...................................................... 8 Red Sky Over Boston Leonid West ....................................................... 9 Ouroboros Caroline Wall ...................................................................... 12 Libertad (Freedom) Penelope Lavios .................................................. 13 You Can Be the Mountain Emily Musgrave ...................................... 16 June Jake Scott ........................................................................................ 17 In the Long Run Elijah Rain Smith ..................................................... 18 Accumulation Elizabeth Yang .............................................................. 22 I, Daphne Leonid West .......................................................................... 24 Saturday Swim Renee Kenny .............................................................. 25 The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth Alice May .................................. 28 The Albany Exchange Michael Wiley ................................................. 30 What It Means To Live Here Alice May ........................................... 34 VISUAL INTERLUDE Shadowed Elena Whitney ..................................................................... 35 Grand Canyon Carlotta Verita ............................................................. 36 The Blob Adrián Mandeville ................................................................. 37 el mercado Andrea Tábora .................................................................. 38 Untitled Andrea Tábora ........................................................................ 39 Archer’s Line of Sight Geoffrey Baring .............................................. 40 Russian Blues Dasha ...................................................................... 41–45 Waders Perri Wilson ............................................................................... 46 Clenched Isaac Tannenbaum ................................................................ 47 The Traveller Geoffrey Baring ............................................................. 48 Color Studies 19/01/18 – 6 Victor Almaraz Argueta ....................... 49 Leaking Charlie Lewis ........................................................................... 50 Triangle Mountain Alvin Shi .............................................................. 51 Publicly Stoic Mélusine Velde .............................................................. 52 Chamber of Ignition Teis Jayaswal .................................................... 53 Santa Maria del Fiore Carlotta Verita ................................................ 54 On a Wire Geoffrey Baring .................................................................... 55 Fog Andrea Tábora ................................................................................. 56 Anjali Sophia Fisher ............................................................................... 57 蜻蜓 Carolyn Hammond ....................................................................... 58 IT’S STILL LIT [every day i am occasioned to be] Gwyneth Cross ......................... 59 The Bedside Table Elizabeth Winkler ................................................. 60 A Farmer’s Life for Me Renee Kenny ................................................ 61 Watermelon Head Anona Mouse........................................................ 64 today is a beautiful day. Eli Timoner ................................................ 65 In Turbaton Se Guzar Ke Atman Mehta ........................................... 66 Phobos Monica Rae Brown ................................................................... 68 To Know or To Guess or To Hope Madison Moore ......................... 69 Poison Testers Mireille Farjo ............................................................... 76 DEAR “BREAKING RULES” Julia Hesse-Fong................................. 78 On Being Asked to Close Read Lena Breda ..................................... 80 Crumbs ................................................................................................... 81 Recipe The Food Network ..................................................................... 84 Cover (Dasha) SLICED BREAD MAGAZINE TO THE BOYS GROWING UP WITHOUT NAMES FELIX LECOCQ I wish I was a necromancer but my words are magic-empty and you’ll have to figure it all out without me. I’ll write you recipes without measurements and hold your hands where you left them pressed on bus windows, countertops, one-dollar bills, I leave my love on all the walls. This poem is a secret only you and I and everyone else will understand, and I hope you will forgive me but I didn’t know how else to reach you. One day, you and I will sit on a concrete beach and there will be nothing between us but our words and the smallest fragment of Lake Michigan. One day, the world will stop feeling squeaky and sour like watermelon skin and breathing will stop being a part-time job. Until then, I will write and read for you and dream of yellow lighthouses and I will love my mother so that you won’t have to. 6 SPRING 2019 I LOVE YOU & YOUR PINK SUEDE BANDANA JAKE WEIss Your mustachioed Wednesday is wet. Our pistachio wedding, my ashtray is brimming, This party is teeming with mice. Steaming your rice, I lose my wallet In the whirlpool sink. Twirl, Jules; rinks do not skate on themselves. Elves are jolly but not as holy As your fourteen compostable smiles. 7 SLICED BREAD MAGAZINE I WENT TO THERAPY ELIZABETH WINKLER / because I wanted to be told I / was / brave / I wanted to sit in a chair and talk / about 2555 nights / why are you eating that? / don’t you want dessert? / seven years / biting my tongue / while she bit air / while she screamed / because that is the only true language / of eating disorders / I went to therapy because I wanted to tell someone / about the blood in my mouth / from swallowing words / so she wouldn’t cut herself on their edges / I hid behind tears / behind I’m okay / and do you want to watch tv / pots and pans were my nightmares / plated food stacked up behind my closed eyelids / I dreamt that